David 'Liar Liar' Murray's 1pm interview today...

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Astounding.

mms://video.premiumtv.co.uk/rangersf...n_aug14_hi.wmv

The questions are also top drawer aswell, and you can tell Mr Murray has carefully seen all questions before hand, and were more than probably written by himself.
Totally leading...

Would of been aswell saying;
"So none of this is actually your fault then Mr Murray?"

The part where he all but invites buyers to come fourth is amazing.


Also; He doesn't like the internet. It's a serious business.
How any Rangers fan can eat this up like the truth is beyond me, and I think more and more people are seeing through his gash, but ultimately you'll get the thick-o brigade that believes everything he says.
Says the club is in "great shape" ??
And he says he hopes the "vast majority of the support understand what he is trying to do at Rangers"?
Does anyone understand it?
I thought everyone did (making £££ backbefore he bolts) and thats what the up-roar is about.

Actually tells bigger lies than Stew.

[endless psych]

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[Watty]

I know that's not the real Murray that one's legs bend.

RANGERS chairman Sir David Murray today broke his silence on the crisis that has engulfed his club's opening to the season.

Murray spoke out after the Ibrox side's shock European exit at the hands of Lithuanian minnows Kaunas last week - and the subsequent £8m sale of fans favourite Carlos Cuellar to Aston Villa.

Furious fans, some of whom are planning protests at this weekend's game against Hearts at Ibrox, have called for leadership and explanations from the Edinburgh-based millionaire. And Murray had his say as he addressed the Gers legions via the club's official website just after lunchtime today...

Q: What is your message to the fans after this disastrous start to the season?

DM: I don't think there is any doubt we are all very disappointed with the start to the season. The manager made it clear the other day that all the good work of the last 18 months had been lost. That left every Rangers supporter disappointed, to say the least.

Coupled with that, our captain, Barry Ferguson, returned to training and has now got a serious injury. Carlos Cuellar decided to take up the clause we had signed a year ago so it's been a hard start.

Q: Was Cuellar forced out the door?

DM: The facts of the matter are this. We sent out a clear, honest statement on the website the other night via the chief executive, Martin Bain. But people want to read that and put their own twist on it. There is not a lot we can do about that. We accept this is football, we will get on with it.

We told the truth. There is nothing untoward as far as Rangers are concerned. Carlos will confirm this as well - which he did - and that is the situation. When we signed Carlos for 3million euros, we never felt he would be worth 10million euros in a years time. This is a clean deal, there is no money going to other clubs. Financially it's a good deal for Rangers, football wise it's not. We have to accept it.

Q: What will happen with the incoming fee for Carlos Cuellar?

DM: We will take the money and reinvest wisely over the short term. It would have been a lot better if we had known this two or three weeks ago when we had more time rather than now rushing around trying to get a replacement.

But we promised that we will spend the money, and we will. What we must not do is feel that we have to sign every player by this Saturday and put ourselves under pressure.

I can give the fans this assurance; we are all working around the clock, Walter Smith, Martin and myself. We had a two-hour meeting this morning here at Murray Park, we will have more today.

For the fourth time I can assure our fans that we will spend the money, hopefully wisely, and make the squad stronger.

Q: Are you confident you will be able to keep the remainder of your top players here?

DM: We are not intending to sell any of our players. We were forced into the situation last week. We genuinely believed that the contract we did with Carlos Cuellar when we brought him was a good one at the time.

Q Do you feel that - if you get the players you want - the team will be equipped to compete this season?

DM: I generally believe, and I don't think any fair-minded person would deny, that we did have the winning of the league at the end of last season. But a series of events caught up with us, and we ran out of steam. That is the truth At the beginning of this season, as Walter has said, the defeat in Kaunas has spoiled a lot of good work. But we accept the criticism, that is life at Rangers. Knowing who we are looking at this week, and what we are trying to do, it will definitely enhance the squad.

Q Are you surprised at the uproar and reaction in the past week?

DM: I think that goes with Rangers. We do have a very strong web culture now, where people want to do postings which they know are not true and they accuse people of things. Yesterday we had internal fights, players arriving. People put that on these sites with no truth in, they are endeavouring to cause mayhem. But it actually, internally, it makes us even more determined to get this right. And I am sure we will.

Q You are coming under a lot of personal attacks. How do you feel about that?

DM: That goes with the title. If I have genuinely done something wrong, then I am open to criticism. I would like to know what I could have done differently? Regretably, I am judged on football results.

We have reached a very difficult time financially across the whole of Scotland, and the most important thing is we run the club fiscally and in the right way. That is what we intend to do. We were criticised in the past for spending too much money and taking too many risks - now we are trying to run it economically correct and we are getting criticised.

When you have been here for 22 years, which is far too long for any one person to be at a football club, these questions are thrown at me. But in my heart of hearts, I know that all of us, collectively, have done our best.

Q You have made it clear you would sell the club. Is there anything new on that?

DM: I hear people phone in and write in and say Murray must go'. It's obvious I have to go one day, my family would love me to go. But I am not going to leave until I am sure there is someone capable of taking it on and it's in safe hands. End of story. I read all the stuff about people could do this and that. Well you know what? Maybe some of them should come up to the mark and put their money where their mouth is, and perhaps we could then talk.

Q What do you think the future holds for Rangers?

DM: I think the club is in great shape. We have young kids coming through Walter has high hopes for. It's very easy to be criticial and pick on all the negatives. But I believe, with all the season ticket sales, with strips going well, the vast majority understanding what we are trying to do - and being supportive.

The most important thing is three points on Saturday, personalities are not important. I hope the players realise that and come up to the mark in the game against Hearts.

2:28pm today


By Darrell King

[XMachina]

"Q: What will happen with the incoming fee for Carlos Cuellar?

DM: We will take the money and reinvest wisely over the short term. It would have been a lot better if we had known this two or three weeks ago when we had more time rather than now rushing around trying to get a replacement."

So what's happened to the Alan Hutton money then?

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They've spent 9million in the close season already, Xmachina.
I can't believe you are even attempting to portray Mr Murray as some sort of money grabbing Walter Mitty. :P

[Zippy]

Here's another beauty from Murray in today's Record...

I was hours away from selling Rangers, reveals Sir David Murray
Aug 18 2008 By Hugh Keevins

SIR DAVID MURRAY has revealed he was hours away from selling Rangers ... but defended himself against the Ibrox fans who say it's time he got out of the club.

The chairman was in talks with a group of businessmen a year ago and legal documents for the sale of the club had been drawn up.

But Murray pulled back from the brink of selling up because he didn't feel Rangers would be falling into the right hands.

He said: "We were all ready to go. Everything was pretty much agreed until I said, 'Look gentleman, how are you going to run this club?'

"I'm sitting there with all the legal documents in front of me and they say, 'We'll carve this up and we'll sell that off'.

"I said, 'Enough, we're not doing the deal' and walked out.

"It wasn't for Rangers because they didn't want to take the club forward in a football way. They saw property angles."

Ironically, it's Murray who has been accused of being an asset stripper since the defeat from Kaunas in the Champions League and the sale of Carlos Cuellar.

But the chairman has figures to prove his reunion with Walter Smith has destroyed that argument.

A total of £25million to spend on transfers and signing-on fees has brought in 25 players.

And Murray has also detailed the ones that got away and others that were never on the cards. He said: "James McFadden was meant to be signing from Birmingham City. He's on £32,000 a week and would cost £6m to buy.

"We don't do £32,000 a week and £6m deals. It's total rubbish.

"I didn't want to sell Cuellar but the deal is 5m euros up front and 5m Euros in 12 months' time. I didn't want to sell him but I had to.

"The fans must look at the financial underpinning the Murray Group has done at Rangers.

"Let's be under no illusions, it's cost us £100m. Unless this club is backed by proper cash, Rangers will have to downsize. There's an economic crisis out there.

"People should take a minute to sit down and reflect."

I love the asking how the club will be run after the legal documents have been drawn up and accussing other people of being 'asset strippers' - this from the guy that sold of the retail division!

Hahahahahaha, get this guy his own stand up tour.

[Watty]

Originally Posted by Zippy

Hahahahahaha, get this guy his own stand up tour.

[Zippy]

Haha, I didn't even mean that!

[Watty]

Originally Posted by Zippy

Haha, I didn't even mean that!

Of course you didn't

[Rosco]

To be fair to Murray, he's put his money where his mouth is in the least week - all the Cuellar money's been reinvested in the team.

[Zippy]

I'm calling him on talking shite about selling the club though.

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Originally Posted by Rosco

To be fair to Murray, he's put his money where his mouth is in the least week - all the Cuellar money's been reinvested in the team.

I think if he hadn't Ibrox would be burning to the ground as we speak.
He had to.

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"But Murray pulled back from the brink of selling up because he didn't feel Rangers would be falling into the right hands.

He said: "We were all ready to go. Everything was pretty much agreed until I said, 'Look gentleman, how are you going to run this club?'

"I'm sitting there with all the legal documents in front of me and they say, 'We'll carve this up and we'll sell that off'.

"I said, 'Enough, we're not doing the deal' and walked out."

This doublethink at work here is astounding. this is the man that allowed Rangers to go more than £70m in debt and pawned the retail operation to JJB for a decade and he wants assurances from someone else that they'll run Rangers competently?

[Rosco]

He doesn't practice what he preaches, that's for sure.

[Densu]

I like Murray but the fact is this. We wouldnt have got the money in for the midfielders if we werent in 'crisis'. It was clear from the Preseason that we couldnt hack it in the midfield and had poor results against part-time teams.

So its time for reinvestment in the club from somebody else.

Thank you for your contribution I like the new signings but I don't want this to ever happen again and I'm not too sure it wouldnt under Murray tbh.